Pre-processing !DEC$ directives in gfortran

Question

I've got a large Fortran codebase that originally targeted Intel's compiler. I'm now gearing up to compile with gfortran. Unfortunately, the code is littered with Intel-style pre-processing directives like:

!DEC$ IF DEFINED (MYDIRECTIVE)
   REAL, DIMENSION(:,:,:), ALLOCATABLE :: my_real_var
!DEC$ ENDIF

From what I can tell via googling and the gfortran docs, there is no internal gfortran support for anything besides C-style pre-processing, like:

#if defined MYDIRECTIVE
   REAL, DIMENSION(:,:,:), ALLOCATABLE :: my_real_var
#endif

Has anyone else encountered this problem and come up with an elegant solution? Obviously, I could write a shell script which calls an external pre-processor before passing code to gfortran for compile, but this just doesn't seem like a terrific solution to me.

Any thoughts? Thanks SO gurus!

Answer 1

Intel ifort understands the C-style preprocessor directives, so it might be easiest to convert your files to that style. Then you would have a single code base that would work with both compilers. There would be some work regression testing the converted code with ifort.